Scrum 7 Common Scrum Myths Here’s a list of Scrum myths that I often encounter as a professional software developer.
Process Software Development Processes: Less is More While simple & lean processes can be empowering for individuals and interactions, excessive processes do the opposite. Having too much process very often creates more problems than it claims to solve.
Psychology Love the Journey. Not the Destination There is this one beautiful idea that I came across in a few books I've read. Each time it appears in a slightly different shape or form but the gist
Azure API Versioning with Swagger, Azure API Management Services and ASP.NET Core - A Frictionless DevOps Flow In the second and last part of this series, I'll talk about a frictionless developer experience for versioning .NET APIs and automatically publishing those versions to Azure API Management Services.
Azure API Versioning with Swagger, Azure API Manager and ASP.NET Core - An Introduction API versioning has no “right way” and I am fairly convinced that API evolution is usually a better option for both API authors and clients of those APIs. Evolving APIs
Angular Continuous Deployment with Angular CLI, Docker, Travis CI and Azure These days when I start writing code for a new project, I feel a sense of urgency to create an end to end development workflow as soon as possible. I
CircleCi Continuous Deployment with Node.js, DynamoDB, AWS Elastic Beanstalk and CircleCI In this post, I'm taking a deep dive into setting up a continuous delivery pipeline using CircleCI.
architecture Setting up Continuous Delivery for a Node.js REST API - Part 2 A few months back I decided to convert my hobby project - Hackathon Planner API - from pure Javascript to TypeScript. This time I sat down to build an Automated Test Suite and a Continuous Delivery pipeline around it.
architecture Setting up Continuous Delivery for a Node.js REST API - Part 1 A few months back I decided to convert my hobby project - Hackathon Planner API - from pure Javascript to TypeScript. This time I sat down to build an Automated Test Suite and a Continuous Delivery pipeline around it.
typescript 5 Quirks of Converting a Node.js Express API to TypeScript TypeScript language and the tooling around it can help all sizeable javascript projects to become more maintainable.
NodeJS Creating an online quiz game using Node.js, Hyperdev, PlayStation Buzz controllers, Raspberry PI and Nfield I've been writing about hackathons and the planner application I've been busy with for a while now. The news is that Hackathon Planner is live and used during the last hackathon event on 25 August 2016 at NIPO Software. 36 hackathon ideas were created,
Conferences After NDC Oslo 2016 In my previous post I'd talked about my plans in NDC Oslo, including all the sessions and the 2-day workshop I was planning to attend. It's been a great experience. I came back with good memories and learned a few things too. NDC conferences
Conferences NDC Oslo 2016 It's time for NDC Oslo again - happening between 6-10 June 2016. I'm excited to be going there once again this year. First two days I'll be taking a workshop on the topic of microservice development (with examples in NServiceBus). Originally the speaker was
Hackathon Implementing an App Walkthrough I think most professionals who design product interfaces (both physical or software interfaces) will agree that simplicity and discoverability of an interface is a big winning factor. Simple and discoverable interfaces are usually self explanatory and for this very reason they tend to provide
Hackathon Hackathon Planner & My experience with Aurelia so far ~2 months ago I wrote about Hackathon Planner and hustled the idea as a candidate project for the next hackathon at NIPO Software. Then the hackathon day arrived. We formed a team of 6 and spent a day working on it. Rutger shot a
Hackathon Hackathon Planner for { NIPO Software } I learn best by practicing. When I only read (i.e no practicing, no note taking), I almost completely forget what I learned after a month or two. I think most people are wired this way. Think about a book you read 6 months
Psychology Flow and Happiness Every now and then I read about rich people talking about the correlation between money, happiness and self fulfillment. More often than not, it's the lack of correlation that they
Workshop Zen of Architecture I was at DevIntersection Conference in Phoenix around mid May 2015. Apart from the regular conference schedule, I took a few interesting workshops one of which was "Zen of
Conferences DevIntersection & AngleBrackets in Phoenix It's conference season again! Developers from NIPO Software were in Build 2014 and NDC Oslo 2014 last year. This year we'll be at NDC Oslo again but this time I
dotnet Notes on Finalization and Disposition in .NET Have you ever thought why disposition pattern is designed the way it is? I hadn't. Sometimes we learn things along the way and never question its basics or roots again. We do it that way because we're told so or because it just worked
MarketResearch Kiwi - Updates & First demo It's been more than a month since I first wrote about Kiwi. In that post I had a "demo" section where I wrote: I was planning to create
Startup Building Kiwi I think it was sometime around February 2014 when Deniz Orsel, my colleague from NIPO Software, came to me and said "I need you to build something...". Later it became apparent that he also already had discussed his idea with Serif Ozcan,
Redis Playing around with Redis & SignalR A good friend of mine contacted me a couple of weeks ago and asked if I would accept a freelancing project. Around research and prototyping. Possibly leading to a new architecture for their existing product. The existing architecture didn't allow any further room for
Conferences After NDC Oslo 2014 It's over. I'm back in Amsterdam after an awesome week in Oslo. Great sessions, lots of smart people, delicious food and very good coffee. Inspirations everywhere. I didn't know Norwegians
Conferences NDC Oslo 2014 Yes! It's happening. We will be at NDC Oslo 2014 with 3 developers from NIPO Software. Bjorn Coltof, Serif Ozcan and I are going to be there between 2-6th of
